These are the meanings of the letters FANT when you unscramble them.
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Aft (adv. & a.)
Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
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Ant (n.)
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
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Fan (n.)
An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
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Fan (n.)
An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
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Fan (n.)
Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
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Fan (n.)
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
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Fan (n.)
Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
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Fan (n.)
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
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Fan (n.)
That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.
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Fan (n.)
A quintain; -- from its form.
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Fan (n.)
To move as with a fan.
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Fan (n.)
To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
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Fan (n.)
To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
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Fan (n.)
To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
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Fan (n.)
To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.
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Fat (n.)
A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
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Fat (n.)
A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
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Fat (superl.)
Abounding with fat
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Fat (superl.)
Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
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Fat (superl.)
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
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Fat (superl.)
Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
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Fat (superl.)
Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
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Fat (superl.)
Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
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Fat (superl.)
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
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Fat (superl.)
Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
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Fat (n.)
An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
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Fat (n.)
The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
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Fat (n.)
Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
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Fat (a.)
To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
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Fat (v. i.)
To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
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Tan (n.)
See Picul.
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Tan (n.)
The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
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Tan (n.)
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
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Tan (n.)
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
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Tan (a.)
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
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Tan (n.)
To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
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Tan (n.)
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
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Tan (v. i.)
To get or become tanned.